When you’re in a rush to get something done (i.e., it’s blowing up in PRD), all you can think about is getting it fixed as quickly as possible. And then you step back, look at what you wrote and go “how could I have written this”? So now, you’re into refactoring mode, cleaning things up and making them more optimal/stable/better for everyone involved. Rushed deliverables are akin to working in an ER (although lives hopefully…
The humble function is the most powerful tool you will learn in any programming language. function DoStuff () { } With it you will learn the basics of encapsulating functionality that you can re-use later in your work. From it you will learn about objects, classes, inheritance, recursion, events, hooks, etc, etc. But it all starts, it all originates, from the Humble Function.
I recently had to do one of those “delivery sprints in a week” things because something went wrong and we had to fix it. Long days, long nights, early mornings first trying to figure out what went wrong and then coming up with a solution to fix it and of course then having to test it to make sure you didn’t screw anything up in your rush to fix it. I don’t do as many…
There is a place where you might not be just yet, where you could be, but just haven’t come to realize it. It’s the place where you belong. Whether it’s work or life, you might not be there just yet, you might be on the path to getting there, but being there right now – no – it’s not time. But if you give up looking, if you stop working towards it, you will never…
No matter how hard you try, you can never, ever recreate a memory. It exists at a point in time, not only reflected by the location but your age, your mood, how you were feeling that day, who you were surrounded with. You can’t recreate those moments. You can’t put all those elements into a bottle and hope that lightning will strike twice. You can create new ones, from new variables, new ideas or new…